Social groups, communities and identities

Can a man of humble birth outwit a world built to exclude him?

Le très beau livre de nouvelles de l'écrivaine argentine Reina Roffé, Oiseaux exotiques, devient enfin accessible au large lectorat français et francophone.

I find prayer to be the best tool available for enduring life's challenges; therefore, I want to share some characteristics of prayer and steps to developing a productive prayer life.

Comme dans un roman picaresque, ce livre raconte l'enfance et la jeunesse d'une petite Viennoise chassée à travers l'Europe pendant la Shoah.

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II.

Intergenerational African families in which the grandmother is the primary caregiver of grandchildren and great-grandchildren are increasing rapidly in American society.

Extremely rare (possibly the only) book-length account of a Soviet penal unit in World War II Gritty, intense style conveys the brutality of war on the Eastern Front Composed of convicts--soldiers who conducted "e;unauthorized retreats,"e; former Soviet POWs deemed untrustworthy, and Gulag prisoners--the Red Army's penal units received the most difficult, dangerous assignments, such as breaking through the enemy's defenses.

With more than 1,700 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of World War II, the events and developments of the era, and myriad related subjects as well as a documents volume, this is the most comprehensive reference work available on the war.

Fondé sur des faits réels, ce livre raconte le destin singulier de Bernard Lacroix, un jeune Français déporté en Allemagne en 1943 pour avoir tenté d'échapper au Service du Travail Obligatoire, et disparu en avril 1945 pendant les « marches de la mort » qui ont marqué la fin de la libération des camps.

Dans l'Antiquité, comme au Grand Siècle ou à la Belle Epoque, l'histoire des femmes passe par celle de leur corps : les femmes et leur corps nié dans ses manifestations physiologiques, malmené par les coups, brisé, asservi, assujetti, enfermé dans les harems, corps épanoui, corps investissant des domaines traditionnellement masculins comme celui des nez parfumeurs et celui de la gastronomie, corps sacré, sublimé par la danse, par la mode, mythifié comme celui de « la femme habillée en rouge de la place Ferdowsi ».

“The last few days have been days of intolerable tension.

Rare photographs from both official and unofficial SS sources illustrate the role of the individual in this epic struggle.

On 10 July 2018, exactly 100 years and 100 days after the formation of the world’s first independent air force, 103 aircraft of twenty-four types from twenty-five squadrons flew over London in the largest formation of military aircraft seen over the capital of the UK in nearly thirty years.

La femme africaine a sa place et un rôle à jouer en tant que citoyenne libre.

"Never have I had greater respect for soldiers than those of the 14th Army who served under Bill Slim, and in particular those guys who were in the Chindit columns.

Marion Deichmann est née quelques semaines avant l'avènement d'Hitler.

Les actions conjuguées de la première dame du Tchad avec son combat multiforme pour les droits et la dignité de la femme tchadienne en général et les violences faites aux femmes en particulier ont inspiré l'auteure.

Le rapport hétérosexuel est la référence.

Mahfouz's last novel, an evocative depiction of life in Egypt in the twentieth century as told through the lives of a group of friends, is now available in paperback for the first time On a school playground in the stylish Cairo suburb of Abbasiya, five young boys become friends for life, making a nearby cafe, Qushtumur, their favorite gathering spot forever.

Maquillage, parfum, coiffure: les jeunes filles accèdent de plus en plus tôt à l'univers de la beauté.

L'enfant est né avec la guerre, des hordes de barbares ont envahi le pays.

Il est facile de rejeter sur Hitler la responsabilité de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

One of the most important slave narratives of all time, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth tells the story of an African American woman who struggled against the bondages of slavery in the mid-1800s.

Dunlaith Bird argues that vagabondage - a physical and textual elaboration of gender identity in motion - emerges as a totemic concept in European women's travel writing from 1850.

Sous le régime de Vichy, 76000 malades mentaux sont morts de faim dans les hôpitaux psychiatriques.

What is and what was the world ?

My passion and dedication for nursing are the reasons that made me love my profession and inspired me to write a book.

Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "e;Flo"e; Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a leader of the Black Power and feminist movements.

The World Youth Report is the flagship publication on youth issues of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

My body has two lives, the spiritual as well as the physical.

Written from the perspective of a child, this book explains in simple text many of the rights that are found in the United Nations’ Convention of the Rights of the Child: from the right to play, to learn, and to share thoughts freely to protection from harmful work, violence, and exploitation.

Adolf Hitler’s Great War military experiences in no way qualified him for supreme command.

Molefi Kete Asante's Afrocentric philosophy has become one of the most persistent influences in the social sciences and humanities over the past three decades.